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(Amendment  5  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  2M  | 
(.Amendment  7  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  286) 


)EPOSITORY 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture 

BUREAU  OF  ANIMAL  INDUSTRY 


Amendment  5  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  281  (Regulations  Governing  the  Importation 
of  Domestic  Livestock  and  Other  Animals  Into  the  United  States)  and 
Amendment  7  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  286  (Regulations  Governing  the  Sanitary 
Handling  and  Control  of  Hides,  Fleshings,  Hide  Cuttings,  Parings,  and 
Glue  Stock,  Sheepskins  and  Goatskins  and  Parts  Thereof,  Hair,  Wool,  and 
Other  Animal  By-products,  Hay,  Straw,  Forage,  or  Similar  Material, 
Offered  for  Entry  Into  the  United  States) 

Effective  January  1,  1927 


In  order  to  guard  against  the  introduction  into  the  United  States  from  Mex- 
ico of  the  contagious,  communicable  disease  known  as  foot-and-mouth  disease 
it  is  hereby  ordered,  under  authority  of  the  act  of  Congress  approved  February 
2,  1903  (32  Stat.  791),  that  no  cattle,  sheep,  goats,  other  ruminants  or  swine, 
and  no  bay.  straw,  or  other  feeding  materials  originating  in  that  portion  of  the 
Republic  of  Mexico  situated  southeast,  east,  and  northeast  of  the  Tehuantepec 
National  Railway  which  crosses  the  Isthmus  of  Tehuantepec.  or  shipped  via 
and  unloaded  within  the  said  described  area,  shall  be  admitted  into  the  United 
States. 

It  is  further  ordered  that  no  hides,  skins,  or  other  animal  by-products 
originating  in  or  shipped  via  and  unloaded  within  that  portion  of  the  Republic 
of  Mexico  situated  south  of  the  Tropic  of  Cancer,  shall  be  admitted  into  the 
United  States,  except  in  compliance  with  the  following  conditions  : 

1.  After  arrival  in  the  United  States  they  shall  be  handled  in  accordance  with  the 
methods  specified  by  the  chief  of  bureau. 

2.  Hides  and  skins  shall  be  disinfected  under  the  supervision  of  a  bureau  inspector 
by  one  of  the  methods  si>ecified  in  B.  A.  I.  Order  256.  dated  December  14.  1917.  for  the 
disinfection   of   such    products   after  arrival    in    the   United    States. 

3.  Animal  by-products  other  than  hides  and  skins  shall  be  disinfected  under  the  super- 
vision of  a  bureiiu  inspector,  in  accordance  with  such  methods  as  may  be  prescribed  by 
the  chief  of  bureau. 

B.  A.  I.  Order  2S1,  dated  February  15,  1923,  and  effective  May  1,  1923,  as 
amended,  and  B.  A.  I.  Order  286,  dated  May  29.  1924.  and  effective  September 
1,  1924.  as  amended,  are  hereby  further  amended  accordingly. 

Amendment  ."5  to  said  Order  281  and  Amendment  4  to  said  Order  2S6,  both 
dated  May  7,  1926.  are  revoked. 

This  order,  which  is  designated  as  Amendment  5  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  281  and 
Amendment  7  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  2N6,  shall  take  effect  on  January  1,  1927. 


Done    at    Washington    this    11th    day    of    l>eceinl>er,    1920. 
Witness    my    hand    and    the    seal    of    the    Department     of 
Agriculture. 


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